Mediatomb configuration

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Hi All,

I have installed the mediatomb application from Packman, but I cannot seem to log in. It is running and I cannto seme to tell how. The service is enabled and when I look at the script it is starting as “Nobody” but when I grep the service it shows running as the mediatomb user.

Also I cannot connect to it via port 50500 in the .conf file but I can to port 49152 and I am presented with a username/login screen.

If I run mediatomb -d logged in as myself there is not login screen, but I want it running on startup

I am trying to set this up as a standalone use server just to catalog my NAS based media on a file share

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Here is something from the log

2008-10-29 11:05:30 INFO: Loading configuration from: /etc/mediatomb/config.xml
2008-10-29 11:05:31 INFO: UUID generated: 9ba12f87-84b7-4a1a-9a8d-97dfaa892cb6
2008-10-29 11:05:31 INFO: Checking configuration…
2008-10-29 11:05:31 INFO: Setting filesystem import charset to ANSI_X3.4-1968
2008-10-29 11:05:31 INFO: Setting metadata import charset to ANSI_X3.4-1968
2008-10-29 11:05:31 INFO: Setting playlist charset to ANSI_X3.4-1968
2008-10-29 11:05:31 INFO: Configuration check succeeded.
2008-10-29 11:05:31 ERROR: Could not write pid file /var/run/mediatomb.pid : Permission denied

Maybe it really is not running??

Ideas?

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To solve the problem:

edit /etc/mediatomb.conf

Change MT_USER to “nobody”.

MT_USER="nobody"

Everything should start properly for you then.

KennV